The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-10
NEWS IN BRIEF

every opium joint ID JhaJ city,
Chico, California, is enlivened b.
t~wenty-four Insurance agents.
Two theatres are in course OF cree
ton In Buffalo, New York, and
third Is talked Of,
1t is said there are more causeles
and cruel e%vlctions In New York city
than in Ireland.
An elevated road IS TO be built II
Los Angeles, and operated by electric
ity to MonrOyia.
The sharpest curve on the Elevated
Railroad in New York is stated to haY'
a radius of 80 feet.
Idaho has a population of $1,000
and thirty-three newspapers, II K
every 2,400 inhabitants.
Numerous New Jersey farmers
have lately been swindled by tn
''l~ightning-rod trick"
st. Louis is a~gitating for four cen
car fares. In Buffalo they are ais,
clamoring for a reduction.
The discovery of a large and Ticl
bed of gold quartz IN the kulu Valley
in the PunjauO, is reported.
General George 4. Sheridan and
Lieutenant General Phil. Ii. Sheridan
are not related to each other.
A gift of e20, 900 has been received
by the University of Australia, for the
founding Of a chair of music.
Twenty sportsmen Of Foster
county, Dakota, turned out the other
day and killed 2,35l gophers.
The same family, German papers
say, has supplied Calyorde with its
Mayors for 160 successive years.
Inhalation of insect (Dalmatian)
powder is assigned as a cause of a
young mans death at HUI, n. II.
The story of Rip Van Wrinkle has
been found by Professor Basil Hall
Chamberlain IN the native japanese
folklore.
New Hampshire nov has but 10C
male and 3 female convicts in hel
State penitentiaTy, the smallest number
for many years.
-Southerland, the forgeT, who is in
jail in Dawson, says he has been con-
verified and is enjoying sweet commun-
ion with his God.
"A painter in Paris, Charles Jacque,
has been made temporarily blind by the
glare of the sun striking through the
skylight of his atClier.
Topeka women made Sl400 re-
Gently without leaving the kitchen.
She invented an egg-beater and sold the
idea for that amount.
The number of female physicians
in New York is now placed at $50, in
GLIDING many whose yearly income
runs as high as $4,000.
summer weather seems to inter
feTe but little with theatricals in San
Francisco, where nearly if not all the
play houses are still open.
AT st. Augustine, Florida, large
quantities Of coquina is beng taken
from the ruins, and used for sidewalks
and repairing the city streets.
"A Rutland (Vt.l paper states that
John H. Craig, who recently visited
that place, weighs 800 pounds, and is
the heaviest man IN the country,
W. NJ. Wheeler, Of Hancock
county, cut a watermelon recently,
and when opened it displayed a dis
tinctly formed w on both halves.
London has its Camden, it seems.
at one church, in the East End, all
comer are married at the low rate of
seven pence ha' penny per couple.
An old well near Ravenna, Ohio,
ia attracting attention by blowing
hard enough to sound a big whistle OF
sucking air in, as it takes a notion.
"A smallpox scare at Los Angeles,
California, has resulted In the expsndi-
ture of about $40, 600 in improving the
general sanitary condition of the place.
"A monster Clan-na-G Gael demon
stration was held in Caledonian Park,
Newark, N June 16. Prominent Irish
men from New York, Philadelphia, and
other places were present
Chambers Journal uses, as an ex-
ample of startling metaphor, Gordon
Cummings comparison OF an African
jungle to a forest of fish hooks relieved
by patches of penkniyes.
Sea serpent observers now have an
extra inducement TO attempt Its cap.
tuIe. A famous Snowman offers
twenty thousand dollars for the mon.
ster, provided it is fifty feet in length.
in San Francisco, too, they're anx-
lously ~endeavoring to solve the prob
lem of the most advisable disposition
to make of the city's garbage. Crema.
ton seems to be favorably looked upon.
The ancient form of trade, barter,
is still adhered TO by the Inhabitants
OF the little town of Clausthol, IN the
HaTtz Mountains, widely known for
its extensive export of trained canaries.